Question

A 40-year-old man presents after ingesting an unknown quantity of his tricyclic antidepressant tablets in a suicide attempt. He is drowsy, hypotensive and has a broad-complex tachycardia on ECG. What is the most appropriate specific antidotal therapy?

Accepted Answer

Intravenous sodium bicarbonate boluses

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Intravenous magnesium sulfate

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Intravenous calcium gluconate

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Intravenous naloxone

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Haemodialysis

Practice question

A 40-year-old man presents after ingesting an unknown quantity of his tricyclic antidepressant tablets in a suicide attempt. He is drowsy, hypotensive and has a broad-complex tachycardia on ECG. What is the most appropriate specific antidotal therapy?